2017 Pearl Street Micro-Project: Modern Obon Festival - Lantern Floating, Fireworks, Drumming & DancingNEW

Join us on August First Friday for this one-day festival inspired by the traditional Okinawan/Japanese Obon Festival. The celebrations will include a picnic gathering and an evening event with lantern floating, fireworks, drumming and dancing.

Please bring a favorite dish of the remembered to a potluck picnic gathering. Following the picnic potluck there will be brief lantern lighting ceremony at 7:00 pm. A lantern making station will be set up during the potluck picnic, where participants will be asked to draw and write messages they would like to send to their loved ones.

In addition, there will be obon-odori dancing, with sparklers to conclude the night with remembrance of the dead and a celebration of being alive and together.
wheelchair accessible

Date
August 4, 2017 - Friday

Time
3:00 pm – 8:00 pm

*This is a rain or shine event!

Background
The Asian Arts Initiative is grounded in the belief that the arts can provide an important political and cultural ''voice'' for the Asian American communities in Philadelphia.

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Celebrate the Japanese Culture – food, performances and dancing.

(Please always confirm date & times, the schedule could change)

Title
Pearl Street Micro-Project: Modern Obon Festival

Location
Asian Arts Initiative, 1219 Vine Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107